Here is an update on what changed in the plugin codebase since my last post.

As of this writing latest stable version has just reached 0.5.7 (this time last year it was 0.4.1). During this year a number of major improvements were made. First of all, with the help of Diaspora enthusiasts the plugin was translated into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and French. Now it is possible to use a custom image as a share button. The blog owners can add their own pods to the list. The list of active pods is synced with data provided by podupti.me.

Some more ideas are brewing and will probably be included in the forthcoming version 0.6.0:

Button presets — a number of predefined designs (shapes and colors) of the ‘share’ button for blog admins to choose from.

More ‘magic’ in button customization, like a visual color picker and live prevew.

Special thanks go to all people who helped localize the plugin: Vostok (Brazilian Portuguese), Andrew Kurtis and David Charte (Spanish), Sandro Kensan (Italian), Borisa Djuraskovic (Serbo-Croatian), Stef20 and Se7h (French)!